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• Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

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  Book, Reading, Men

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• If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

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  Book, Reading, People

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

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  Memories, Forgetfulness

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

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  Men, Fire, Bystanders

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.23

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• The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

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  Vices, World, Tolerate

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

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  Time, Play, Long

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.239

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• The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

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  Character, World, Concern

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

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  Understood, Known

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

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  Morning, Hard Work, Passion

  Sir Arthur Helps (1848). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.55

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• What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

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  Blessing, Discovery, America

  Arthur Helps (1859). “Friends in Council”, p.16

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• Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

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  Knowledge, Toil, Looks

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life”, p.23

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• Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

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  Land, Advice, Foolish

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• Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

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  Secret, Importance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

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  Drama, Passion, People

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.94

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• No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

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  Love, Country, Men

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.114

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• War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

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  Kings, War, Rome

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

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  Men, Light, Decision

  Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.11, [s.n.]

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• Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

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  Leadership, Party, Eye

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

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  Strong, Thinking, Mind

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

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  Giving, Simplicity, Foundation

  Sir Arthur Helps (1851). “Fruits of leisure, or Essays written in the intervals of business”, p.97

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• It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

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  Patience, Endurance, Forbearance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1876). “Realmah”, p.232

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• A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.

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  Character, Errors, Feelings

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

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  Men, Bravery, Example

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.128

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• Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

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  Pride, Atmosphere, Wickedness

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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